Are the emporia rare, extraordinary places that reflect some kind of economic experiment?
It is not clear how he views the relationship between emporia as part of a large-scale network and emporia as regionalized institutions.
The point to make here, then, is how extraordinarily focused the emporia were, by comparison.
The transformation, which he saw as being linked to the rise of emporia, consisted of greater rationality in solving communication problems between the different communities.
Unearthing the cosmology of the emporia?
The purpose is not to have fine banks, it is not to have magnificent emporia; it is to live in them.
Women go to the emporia and spend half a day to look at things and then come out without buying anything.
His work lead to theories on the impact of the development of such emporia (trade ports) that was considered highly innovative in its field.
